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CT sinogram-consistency learning for metal-induced beam hardening correction

Authors
 Hyoung Suk Park  ;  Sung Min Lee  ;  Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo , Yong Eun Chung 
Citation
 MEDICAL PHYSICS, Vol.45(12) : 5376-5384, 2018 
Journal Title
MEDICAL PHYSICS
ISSN
 0094-2405 
Issue Date
2018
Keywords
computerized tomography ; deep learning ; metal artifact reduction ; tomographic image reconstruction
Abstract
PURPOSE: This paper proposes a sinogram-consistency learning method to deal with beam hardening-related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent sinogram that does not match the range space of the Radon transform. When the mismatched data are entered into the range space during CT reconstruction, streaking and shading artifacts are generated owing to the inherent nature of the inverse Radon transform METHODS: The proposed learning method aims to repair inconsistent sinogram by removing the primary metal-induced beam hardening factors along the metal trace in the sinogram. Taking account of the fundamental difficulty in obtaining sufficient training data in a medical environment, the learning method is designed to use simulated training data and a patient's implant type-specific learning model is used to simplify the learning process.

RESULTS: The feasibility of the proposed method is investigated using a dataset, consisting of real CT scans of pelvises containing simulated hip prostheses. The anatomical areas in training and test data are different, in order to demonstrate that the proposed method extracts the beam hardening features, selectively. The results show that our method successfully corrects sinogram inconsistency by extracting beam hardening sources by means of deep learning.

CONCLUSION: This paper proposed a deep learning method of sinogram correction for beam hardening reduction in CT for the first time. Conventional methods for beam hardening reduction are based on regularizations, and have the fundamental drawback of being not easily able to use manifold CT images, while a deep learning approach has the potential to do so.
Full Text
https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mp.13199
DOI
10.1002/mp.13199
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Radiology (영상의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Chung, Yong Eun(정용은) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-9578
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/166827
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